I'm really not liking soulseek. Is it me, or does their server go down an aweful lot? Is there a better music finding program out there? Like WinMX?[/quote]

WinMX was horrible. I couldn't find ANYTHING that I wanted. That's why I have Soulseek, sure it's a pain in the ass sometimes and the search results are crappy these days, but it's still the best p2p. And you can usually find anything you might want, which is good if you like weird stuff. Have you got the latest version? It's a little better.

If you're getting more popular stuff, WinMX is probably OK, but I'd prefer to use BearShare... or even Limewire. But on these you can generally only get specific tracks here and there. This is fine if that's all you want, but I download albums.

I don't remember my SoulSeek ID, I hardly use it. I use WinMX from time to time as well. But Tarantula, if you want to download entire albums or discographies at a time (seriously, entire discographies) then get a BitTorrent client, it's way faster and much more dependable.

[quote="trashlikeyou"]I don't remember my SoulSeek ID, I hardly use it. I use WinMX from time to time as well. But Tarantula, if you want to download entire albums or discographies at a time (seriously, entire discographies) then get a BitTorrent client, it's way faster and much more dependable.[/quote]

Speaking of album leaks, this one torrent tracker I use had a leaked copy of the new Beck album (it's supposed to come out next month). Unfortunately, the admins took it down and the only sensible explanation I found in the forums was that it was not encoded at a high enough bitrate. It was encoded at 160 kb/s and the trackers requirements were 192 kb/s minimum. I think a good amount of people got it before they took it down though.

I can't actually get broadband here yet, so it's not even my fault... but I'm poor anyway. But yeah torrents are full of gaylords. They've got so many wanky little fag rules and are all audio wankers (ooh 192 or bust!). I'd like to spit on them all.